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Ebenezer
May. 14, 2007
Haiku
As we approach the end of the school year, we've completed our Rod and Staff LA material and my son's written narrations have been for science, but I felt as if we still needed to do more practice in other areas. Prompted by Rod and Staff's extremely narrow definition of poetry -- rhyme and strict meter -- I thought I would introduce the traditional 5-7-5 haiku. Here's my son's guess-the-animal haiku:
Climbing in the trees,
soaring, flying in the breeze,
gliding on the air.
Answer: a flying squirrel.
Then I thought haiku would be a fantastic way to handle some of our history narration for the rest of the year. After reading the Erie Canal book from Sonlight 3, for example, my son wrote:
Donkeys pull cargo
along the Erie Canal
dug by the Irish.
He thinks it's fun, and I like how it forces the writer to use strong verbs and get to the main points. It only takes a few minutes, too, and we discuss word choice in a way that will carry over into better prose writing. I'm finding it a good mental exercise, too.
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